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263949 2004-08-22 09:22:00 >Here's what I told ILL after he came to me asking why Gentoo wasnt working:
>Read twice, Compile once - If it still doesnt work, take two steps backwards

:-p

>Stage 1 is not on the CD and needs to be downloaded also, but my question is this:
>How are you going to get it on to the PC if you're formatting the drive? Are you keeping a partition?

It's eleven meg, it can fit on a usb thumb drive.

>The great thing is you can be doing two things at once, so you can:
emerge -f kde
>This will begin downloading KDE. Go away and make a coffee, come back 10 mins later and open another shell and type:
>emerge kde
>While emerge -f kde is still going... This way its downloading at the same time as compiling!

Nice idea.
ilikelinux (1418)
263950 2004-08-22 09:45:00 > > Stage 1 is not on the CD and needs to be downloaded
> also, but my question is this:
> > How are you going to get it on to the PC if you're
> formatting the drive? Are you keeping a partition?
>
> It's eleven meg, it can fit on a usb thumb drive.

Yes, but what if you dont have a Thumbdrive? Sure you can pick them up for $60ish... but what if you want to begin install here/now ? ;-)
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